Christer Fuglesang

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christer Fuglesang
Occupation	Astronaut
Date Of Birth	Mar 18, 1957(1957-03-18)
Age	67
Birthplace	Stockholm
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Stockholm County
Horoscope	Pisces

Christer Fuglesang Biography

Christer Fuglesang is one of the most popular and richest Astronaut who was born on March 18, 1957 in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden. It was the first Swedish citizen to be a space-based. He was member of 1992’s ESA Group.

He was the very first from his home country to space, along with He was the first person from his country in space, as was Alan Shepard..

Fuglesang was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father, who became a Swedish citizen shortly before Fuglesang’s birth. Fuglesang graduated from the Bromma Gymnasium, Stockholm in 1975, earned a Master of Science degree in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Stockholm in 1981, and received a doctorate in experimental particle physics from Stockholm University in 1987. He became an associate professor (docent) of particle physics at Stockholm University in 1991.

Fuglesang, once a Swedish national Frisbee champion, held the national title in “maximum time aloft” in 1978, and subsequently competed in the 1981 World Frisbee Championship. Fuglesang took one of his personal frisbees to the International Space Station. On Dec 15 in 2006, he set a new “world record” for Time Aloft by freefloating a spinning frisbee for 20 seconds in the microgravity environment of the ISS. It was done during a live broadcast interview with a space exhibition in Stockholm Sweden. The record attempt was recognised by the sports governing body, the World Flying Disc Federation, and the record was accepted. But since it was set “outside the earth’s atmosphere” it was recorded as ‘Galactic Record’.

He was married and has three kids.

Christer Fuglesang Net Worth

Christer Fuglesang is one of the richest Astronaut from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christer Fuglesang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Then, he was a member of his position at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the year 1992.

He has been in two Space Shuttle missions and gone on five spacewalks making him the first outside space programs of the U.S. or Russian space programs to complete over three separate spacewalks.

Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on December 10, 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swedish citizen in space.

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Who is Christer Fuglesang Dating?

According to our records, Christer Fuglesang married to Elisabeth Fuglesang. As of December 1, 2023, Christer Fuglesang’s is not dating anyone.

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On March 17, 1995, he was selected as a member of Crew 2, the backup crew for the Euromir 95 mission, joining Gennadi Manakov and Pavel Vinogradov. During the mission, which lasted 179 days, Fuglesang was the prime crew interface coordinator. From the Russian Mission Control Center (TsUP) in Korolyov, he was the main contact with ESA Astronaut, Thomas Reiter, on Mir, and acted as coordinator between Mir and the Euromir 95 Payloads Operations Control Center, located in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and project management. Between March and June 1996, he underwent specialized training in TsPK on Soyuz operations for de-docking, atmospheric re-entry and landing.

Facts & Trivia

Christer Ranked on the list of most popular Astronaut. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Christer Fuglesang celebrates birthday on March 18 of every year.

In October 1998, he returned to NASA and was assigned technical duties in the Station Operations System Branch of the NASA Astronaut Office, working on Russian Soyuz and Progress transfer vehicles. Later he worked as prime Increment Crew Support Astronaut for the second International Space Station expedition crew. Fuglesang also continued with some scientific work and was involved with the SilEye experiment which investigated light flashes in astronauts’ eyes on Mir between 1995 and 1999. This work is continuing on the International Space Station (ISS) with the Alteino and ALTEA apparatuses. He has also initiated the DESIRE project to simulate and estimate the radiation environment inside ISS.